The Invalides site also had a very successful panorama called “Le panorama de tout-Paris”, which represented the capital’s social life. The state was therefore much more visible than in the previous fair.
There was, for instance, a hygiene “palace”, a public welfare pavilion, as well as a building dedicated to social economy. On the other hand, east of the main site, the Esplanade des Invalides was housing a colonial exhibit, as well as several state-sponsored pavilions. The Fair had this time two sites: on the one hand, the Trocadéro and the Champ-de-Mars were housing the Fine Arts and industrial exhibits, as in 1878. It was claimed that the railway carried 6.342.446 visitors in just six months of operation. Transport around the Exposition was partly provided by a 3 kilometer (1.9 mi) 600 millimeter (2 ft 0 in) gauge railway by Decauville.
The 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle covered a total area of 0.96 km2, including the Champ de Mars, the Trocadéro, the quai d’Orsay, a part of the Seine, and the Invalides esplanade. The most famous structure created for the Exposition, and still remaining, is the Eiffel Tower. It attracted more than thirty-two million visitors.
The 1889 World Fair in Paris was symbolically important, since the year 1889 marked the hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, and the Fair was announced as a celebration of the event. The Eiffel Tower viewed from the Champ du Mars.
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